English > Lythraceae: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | herbs and shrubs and small trees with pink or purple flowers. |
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| Synonyms | family Lythraceae, loosestrife family |
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| Member of | Myrtales, order Myrtales, Thymelaeales, order Thymelaeales | Myrtaceae |
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| Members | Lagerstroemia, genus Lagerstroemia | shrubs or small trees of tropical Asia and Africa usually with showy white, pink, or purplish flowers |
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| Lythrum, genus Lythrum | loosestrife |
| Broader | dicot family, magnoliopsid family | family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination |
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| Spanish | litráceas |
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